Post on 27-Dec-2015
Entertainmentphoto story and documentation
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Was school interesting today?My class asked
people of different age groups about their free time.
What kind of entertainment did you talk about?
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Free time in everyday life
children (our
generation)
our parents
our grand-parents
- meeting friends- playing instru- ments- sports- reading- cinema- shopping
- sports- meeting friends- being outside
- sports- meeting friends- reading- disco / club- learning- sometimes: jobs- photography
Free time in our holidays
children (our
generation)
our parents
our grand-parents
- travelling- relaxing
- travelling- sports- scouts
- sometimes: travelling- campsites- scouts- sports- sometimes: job
From milk bar to McDonald‘s
children (our
generation)
our parents
our grand-parents
- at home- a lot of restaurants
- at home- ice cream parlour- dairy man- milk bar
- milk bar - dairy man
Going out for Entertainment- sleepovers- cinema- theatre
- disco - cinema- dancing
Children‘s birthday parties
children (our
generation)
our parents
our grand-parents
- programme for friends- rarely at home- sleepovers- cinema- theatre
- playing with friends and having cake
- family
Clothes and shoppingchildren
(our generation)
our parents
our grand-parents
- shops- online shopping
- shops (in the city)
- at the tailor‘s- shops (city or village)
Shopping while travelling- family and friends get a present
- local food or things
- collecting sea shells
Where did you go after school today?You didn‘t come home for lunch.
I had lunch with Jil and Zane, her guest from Latvia. We did some live shopping.
Grandma, I have got a question. Did you do this kind of shopping when you were young?
Oh no! I don‘t even know what it is. In former times, shopping was very different and no fun…
ShoppingShopping
Past vs. Today• corner shop (very small shops) →
shopping malls
• shopping with parents → shopping with friends
• things were bought in pounds (500g) → things are bought in packages
• almost every district/city had a market-day → there are barely any market-days with big markets
• prices were cheaper→ a lot of things are more expensive
• shopping was necessary → it‘s like a hobby• shops closed very early, at 6.30 p.m. and
on Saturdays at 2 p.m. → A lot of shops are open until 8 or 10 p.m. and propose also ,,Midnight-Shopping‘‘
Mail-Order-Catalogues• first catalogue published in 1872• only one page• things are illustrated and there‘s a short
description of the product• examples of clothes : Neckermann and Bonprix
Online-Shopping• it‘s carried out on the internet• there are also applications for smartphones• example: Zalando (since 2008)
Live - Shopping• Trend from the USA• A product is offered for a certain period on TV,
so the customer has to buy it immediately by phone
Yes mum, I bought a guidebook for travelling to Latvia. The modern travelguides that people take along for holidays don‘t look like yours.
Oh that‘s really different…Did you buy anything, darling?
For example, could
you present some
travel guides of the
past and today?
That‘s a good idea. Maybe we can better
understand the development from
past travel guides to modern ones.
Yes, sure! I will show
you a travel guide of the
past and today. They‘re
about Sicily, Crete and
London.
published in
2000
published in 1978
Travel guide analysisTravel guide analysis
But are the contents of the
travel guides from the past
and of today the same?
Which travel guides have information
about what kind of sights?
In which travel guides can you find more information about events and
restaurants?
Here you can see the new travel guide from 2005 on the left and the old one from
1979 on the right.
In travel guides of the past, you can find more pages with general information about a city or a country.
Example: London
1980 50% of the pages
2012 13% of the pages
On the left is the
old one from
1980 and on the
right is the new
one from 2012
• Travel guides of the past always have a lot of information about culture , monuments and art, but very little information about shopping. Modern ones have more information about very famous sights and shopping malls.
• In today‘s travel guides you can find more information about restaurants, pubs, events, parties and beaches than in the old ones.
Here you see
pages of the
new travel
guide (2005).
Here you can see pages of the old travel guide (1979).
Here is 2012 on the left and 1980
on the right.
To sum it up: Travel guides adapt to the
changing interests and demands of tourists in respect to a city or a
country.
Grandma, when you were a child which technological means of entertainment did already exist?
Well, if you look back in history and when I cast back my mind, the technological development was important and changed our lives….
EntertainmentEntertainmentexchanging Information – writing and talking
making and listening to music
theatre and film
(from the Stone Age till (from the Stone Age till today)today)
from smoke signal to SMS
cave painting ~ 45000 BC
letters existed already inBabylon, Egypt, ancient Greece…
morse codearound 1840
telephone~ 1880
SMS ~ 1990
from handmade to electronic music
electronic musical instruments
~ 19th century
synthesizer~ 1950
handmadeinstruments
are as old as
Human beings
plastic instruments~ 1950
digital Musical instruments~ 1980
from street theatre to internet
street theatrefamous already
in Europe in the 17th century
(Roman theatres)modern theatres
~ 1850
cinema~ 1900
Internet andwireless~ 1990-2000
TV ~ 1950
computer~ 1980 YouTube
2005
Wow, that was a really interesting afternoon. We have learned so many new things while talking.And talking to each other is the best entertainment anyway, isn‘t it?
© The German Comenius-Team 2012-14
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